dakidreturns / gochan

A simple web scraper, written in go. No Additional dependencies required

gochan

Download images from 4chan

Features

1. Download all the images from a 4chan forum.
2. No dependincies, no extra modules required.
3. You can import this package into your go project and use it

Building From the source (If you just want an image scrapper and nothing more)

1. Ensure your go version is >= 1.16
2. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/DaKidReturns/gochan
3. Go into the folder gochan $ cd gochan/example where you will find the example code as main.go
4. Run go build -o gochan
5. Now that you have compiled your source you can use it by $ ./gochan [4chan-urlname]

Using the module for your project

1. Ensure your go version is >= 1.16

2. Run the command go get github.com/DaKidReturns/gochan

3. Use it in your project by the import statement

   import "github.com/DaKidReturns/gochan"

   or

   import(
    	"github.com/DaKidReturns/gochan"
    )

   it will be imported as gochan.

Future Plans

1. Add a progress bar to show the currently downloading image
2. Currently it saves the pictures to the Directory (HOME)/Pictures/Gochan and takes only one command line argument
3. I plan to do something with concurrency in golang, like download multiple files at once. (after I learn concurrency in golang)
4. Create better Documentation
5. Add a Logging feature
6. Add an option for saving to custom directories

Why did I do this?

1. I wanted to learn golang
2. I wanted to download all the images from a forum on 4chan the one that contains a lot of technical drawings

So I figured why not create a web scaper for it ;-)